The Clerk’s Mistake: A Word Born on the Tweed, and the Tartan That Came from It
The story of the Oliver tartan begins in the Scottish Borders, where the river, its weaving traditions and the families who lived along its banks became closely intertwined. Some time in the 1830s, a London cloth merchant received a consignment from a firm in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, with an invoice attached. The cloth…